Cooker or Caker: Both

Bake/Cook Frequency: Every day

Favorite Food Moment: after a really intense and long cooking/baking session, finally sitting down to eat what I have created.

Favorite Cooking Word: oops!

Favoriate Restaurant: A local restaurant, Pier 57

Favorite Chef: all the real life people like me who post their tried and true family favorite recipes on websites!

In My Town Try: Wegmans Chocolate cake (the 18 dollar round layer cake) also fresh Italian bread from Harrison bakery, and a corned beef sandwich from Pickles deli (or a sub from Wegmans must have sub sauce!)

Interests: cooking, baking, Music, decorating, reading, photography, a little poker, relaxing, and I did recently try white water rafting which I can't wait to do again!

Languages: a little spanish

Books: A new Earth. Eat, Pray, Love. Gossip Magazines. Cookbooks, I have hundreds! Lord of the Rings.

TV/Movies: Friends, oprah, Lost, CSI, AMC, 24, Grey's Anatomy,

ABOUT ME

I am a mom of 2, wife to one...ha ha. I wear the pants, I control my husband through his stomach. I am passionate about few things, but I am so passionate about those things it consumes all my energy. Those "things" are: Baking, cooking, family, friends, music, and decorating(food, home, etc..) I work on the weekends, which allows me to cook and bake alll week long. I am a sucker for good comfort food, like mac 'n' cheese or any cheesy casserole. I love pesto, pineapple, Southern Comfort, edamame, and Wegmans chocolate cake. (best thing I have ever put into my mouth) Wegmans is my favorite place to shop actually. It's a local grocery store that has turned into a grocery phenomenon! If I could do anything in the world it would be to open up a cool "urbanish"bakery with tall glass front windows. The walls would all be chalkboard paint, (except one brick wall with fireplace) with the baked goods in old fashioned glass cases. granite counters with mile high cakes on glass cake stands. hand blown swirly glass pendant lights, handwritten menus, on the chalkboard walls. Indie music playing, a kids area that is a mini version of the friends café. I would wear jeans and a white button up shirt with black aprons and a messy bun. I could go on and on, even have a name for it but that's a secret!

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